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THE MORNING OREGONIANV MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1922 BISHOP OF CHINA TELLS OF: U Christianity Force 1913 ORGANIZED JANUARY 2, 1913 BISHOP Capital and Surplus ,......$ 625,000.00 Deposits .$1,896,074.09 Number of depositors. 2,400 Episcopal ltelease in Order to Accept Missionary Position. 3 i ' . . J . COTERIE OF PERSONS OFFICIALLY CONNECTED WITH EPISCOPAL GENERAL CONVENTION SESSIONS. Declared Real it , i y . i . ;-; cl m , in Orient. , i II X rHi P i ! W- ROOTS IS HERE ;v 1 . ' - $ ' ' h X; s Dignitary to Ask for V,!" v f ' fSS A F'i J -' 1 M - " - i vv K s J & "it -III V I From far-away China, as a rep resentative of the diocese of Han kow, comes Bishop Logan H. Roots, Ti-ho abounds in information of the progress of Christian forces in China and is interested in a new organization which is being per fected there, with- the object of bringing the various denominations shoulder to shoulder in the promo tion of the Christian faith and to bring about a feeling of ac cord between the many Protestant churches. v Bishop Roots lias been honored lv an invitation from the newly organized national Christian coun cil of China to become one of the full-time officers of that body. The national Christian council was or ganized by the national Christian conference, which consisted of about 1000 Chinese and other delegates meeting in Shanghai last May. The conference represented aoout 14" different Protestant organizations throughout China. The council i: the executive body of the confer ence. Jfew Force Nourished. The ' movement in which the bishoD is interested sponsors the creation and nourishing of a new intellectual . and moral force China, the need for which has been created by the revolution seen political, moral and social circles throughout the nation. Two meth ods of dealing with the movement presented themselves - to the con ference. One was to establish ecclesiastical unity, particularly in the organic phases of the church. This was rejected, however, and it was de cided to take the alternative of creating a feeling of mutual under standing between the Christian forces, and co-operate in a gen eral way in matters where a church .working alone would be inadequate. Others who have been invited with Bishop Roots to accept full-time po sitions with the council are an Eng lish Quaker clergyman, Henry Hodg kin, a clergyman in the Chinese Episcopal church. Rev. K. T. Chung, and a Miss Fan, secretary of the Chinese T. W. C. A. Army Largely Christian. Illustrative of the hold which Christianity is taking on the Chi nese people is the tale which Bishop Roots tells concerning a division of the Chinese army in which probably 8000 out of 10,000 of the soldiers are dyed-in-the-wool Christians, led by General Feng Tu-Hsiang. whose personality has led to the strength ening of the Christian faith with countless numbers of Chinese who have not merely accepted Christian ity in a remote sense, but have ac tually become imbued ' with the creeds and are putting them into practice. "Tu-Hsiang, who travels from place to place among various of the dioceses said the bishop, "has be come reputed as a fearless reformer, and has with sternness, but not harshness, put an end in various communities to the amount of vice which is above all a menace to Chi nese life. He has managed to wipe out quarters of cities which have teen set aside as gambling abodes and opium centers, and he has erad icated the houses of prostitution. "Had we more Chinese leaders like this man, China would not be in the state it is today. He has made the power of Christianity felt in the army, an especially out-of-the-way place for it to show strength." Bishop Roots will present the plan of co-operation to the convention and seek to be released for a period of years from his present activity in China to devote time to the co operative work. njTCRJS RESTS OX CHURCH 60,000,000 in America Not Mem bers ot Religious Bodies. Little optimism was held out for the future of the world and human ity unless there comes a realization of the folly of society, brought about by a greater spiritual under standing and an active responsibil ity in the affairs of the church and religion, in a sermon delivered by Bishop Gaylord G. Bennett of Du luth, Minn., from the pulpit of St. Shephen's Pro-Cathedral at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The speaker decried the fact that of the 110,000,000 people in . the United States today there are more than 60,000,000 who do not profess affilia tion with any organized religious body. "The people on the outside with , leanings and sentiment cannot bring the world to a realization of its folly," he said, saying there were thousands who claimed religious leanings but who failed to take an active part in the church. "Ethical or moral consideration of life must have a spiritual understanding," he declared. "And morality is a by product of religion; if there is no religion there is no morality, and if there is no morality there is no so cial life." There are three . great principles in the church today, in the opinion of Bishop Bennett, which' must be considered in the ultimate solution of present conditions. The first of these is to realize that man is a spiritual being not a child of time, but a creature of eternity About this theory hinges the second fac tor, that if man is a spiritual being he has a moral work to do and the completion of this work will make society a thing to endure. The third resulting principle makes it xneces sary that man live to exercise his moral responsibility for the benefit of humanity and life as a whole. "God is not interested in saving business or society," the Bishop said in explaining the relationship of the spiritual understanding to life of today. "His interest is in the kind of men who make up the busi ness and social life." The method of bringing about this salvation, whether it be in the set tlement of labor disputes, the dis-1 tribution of wealth or the preserva tion of the peace of the world, must be to perfect a more complete real- i ization of the relationship of the life of Jesus Christ and of man, he said. ' - ' . Ill ; S'"1"' n , FIITH HEALING IS ISSUE r : r" "' f r I s v III H-L. f vv J "cr LNr v i II i jUi j 11 UMI I m ' ' (i in ft - r WARM DEBATE BEFORE CON VEXTION SLATED. New York Bisbop Indorses Prac titioner, Declaring Prayer Cures Bodily Ills. ' (Continued From First Page.) To question the efficiency of. such healing is to question the efficiency of prayer. It is beyond me to see how any Christian who believes in faith and prayer can question heal ings of this sort. "I have given my indorsement to the Rev. Mr. Hickson . without Qualification or reserve because of what I have seen with my own eyes. He held his first service in Trinity church in New Tork and many other services were held in my diocese. Several of these now hold regular healing services. His work is not to be confused with psychotherapy or mental healing. The principle of mental therapeutics is the power of mind over matter.- But the spiritual healing urged by Hickson is the power of the healing Christ brought directly to bear. Healing Revision Favored. This is quite a different thing from Christian Science. It doesn't deny the existence of sickness. It doesn't deny the skill of physicians, but works right along with the physicians. As a matter of fact JL personally escorrted Rev. Mr. Hick son into the homes of three New York physicians where he minis tered to members of their families. "I want to see the ministry of healing revised. In this our com mission is entirely agreed so far as I ever discovered." The Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent, bishop of southern Ohio, is chairman or this commission. The other mem bers Rt. Rev. . Philip M. Rhinelander, bishop of Pennsylvania; Rev. Dr. Arthur B. Kinsolving, rector of St. Paul's church, Baltimore; Rev. Dr. Z. B. T. Phillips, St. Louis; Dr. George F. Henry, Joseph G. Minot and F. Si Edmonds. The three lay men represent educational and legal interests. Vlxiting Bishops Speak. Visiting bishops spoke in all the larger - Episcopal churches of "the city yesterday at both morning and evening services. There were no conferences r activities relating directly to the convention. Some few delegates arrived, but the heavy influx of those who" plan to reach here in time for opening of-the gen eral convention will come today and tomorrow. Registration headquar ters will be established at the mu nicipal auditorium this morning and permanent registration of all dele gates to the two houses of the con vention will be started. Those who" enrolled earlier will re-register at this headquarters. The pre-conven-tion conferences of the house" of bishops will be resumed this morn ing. Memorial Is Unveiled. Perhaps most notable among serv ices of yesterday morning was that at Trinity church, where nearly 25 bishops were within the chancel or congregation. The unveiling of a memorial tablet in tribute to youths of the church who gave their lives in the great war was a feature of the service, with General R. M. Blatchford of Vancouver Barracks unveiling the bronze. Four bishops assisted in the services. They were Bishop Darlington, of Harrisburg, who preached the sermon; Bishop Reese of Georgia, Bishop Brewster of Connecticut and Bishop Tucker of southern Virginia. Left to right Mrs. Louis V. Montcagle, premdent woman'n auxiliary of the eighth province and member national executive Hoard; is nop Walter T. Snmner of Oregon and Bishop Thomas C. Darat of East Carolina, known as the "twin bishops" because consecrated on the same day January 6, 1013; airs. William Ford Nichols, wife of Bishop Nichols of California and honorary president woman's auxiliary of the eighth province. Below at left Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, executive, secretary of the department of Christian social service. At Right ; Rev. R. Bland Mitchell, field secretary of nation-wide campaign of the Episcopal church. schools. Attention was called to the fact that the repertoire of music for church services is immense, the choice and maintenance of standards resting with the choirmasters under the direction of clergy. It was point ed out that standards are hot well defined and that training in church music has suffered great neglect. The report, which covered 57 printed pages and may well stand as a valuable text book on the whole subject of church music, is signed. among others, by Rt. Rev. William Cabell Brown, D. D.. bishop of' Vir ginia, who is the chairman of the commission, and by Bishops Johnson of Missouri, 'Perry of Rhode Island, Du Moulin of Ohio, Stearly of New ark and Johnson of Colorado, Rev, Dr. John Lewis of Connecticut, Rev. Z. B. T. Phillips of Pennsylvania.- Very Rev. Edmond S. Rousmamere of Massachusetts-, Rev. Ernest M. Stires of New York, the Rev. Floyd W. Tompkins of Pennsylvania, Rev. Edward S. Travers, D. D of Pitts burg, and by Dr. Wallace Goodrich of Massachusetts, Dr. Miles Farrow, New York city; Dr. Peter C. Lutkin, Chicago; Walter Henry Hall of New York; Ralph Kindser of Pennsylvania and James M. Helfenstein of New York. resDonding secretary for the cam paigns department, tells of the great work which has oeen accompiisnea through the departmental organiza tion which was created at the last triennial convention of the Epis copal church at St. Louis in 1919. The financing of the worK or the church has been more efficient since the establishing of the budget system throughout-the dioceses and missionary, districts, he says. Rais ing of funds has been on a thor oughly sound basis and most of the responsibility for the requisition of necessary money has not reverted in Iq-ia voot-q tr fh individual field besides Bishop Manning, are: ; mission workers. "Our particular department," said Rev. Mr. Mitchell, "acts as the field department of the council to carry on the financial campaign, and .to organize the .work of the - church so far as it relates to the functions and -duties of the presiding bishop and council, it is an agency for field strategy, promotion, and co ordination. "We have seen remarkable suc cess in interesting a larger per centage of our people in the work of the church. Three years ago per haps one-third of the people were interested" to an extent that they were willing to contribute some service or aid to the understandings of the church. Now at least one half of our .people have been inter ested to this extent. The policy of our department is to give informa tion as to the work of the church. When this is circulated and made perfectly comprehensible, interest is created. Then comes conviction on the part of the church member of the value of the tasks undertaken? Following this is consecration to tasks on their own part in the giv ing of their services and money to the church, and later expression on the part of the individual through various forms. "Our plan for the coming three years is the raising of $21, 000,000 for the financing of the work of the church." CIIRTST 'ALONE IS PERFECT More Powerful Vision Said to Re veal Greater Glory. "The brightest and best of the sons of the morning do not invite close inspection. There are defects in all the saints," said Rev. Thomas J. Villers, pastor of th First Bap tist church (White Temple), in his sermon yesterday morning on the subject, 'The Man Worth Consider ing." He took for his text, "Consider Christ," Hebrews 12:3. "The more delicate and powerful our vision of Jesus, the more beauty and glory are revealed. When our thoughts are occupied with him, our hearts become enamored and our souls enraptured. In the word 'consider,' we find also the thought of comparison. The word is one of those which staggers under the weight of its own meaning. It suggests that we are to acquaint ourselves with Jesus not only by scrutinizing and comparing, but also by pondering. "He is spoken of as creator. Through him the worlds were made. Grasp the comforting truth that the voice which rolls the stars along speaks all the . promises. Ponder him as the heir of all things and remember that we are joint heirs with him. Ponder him as the ex press image, the precise reproduc tion, of God's person and find in his humanity a visible peg on which to hang your conception of the invis ible God. Ponder him as the one who is able to succor them that are tempted, recalling that this word 'succor' contains the figure of a mother's quickness in responding to the cry of her child. Ponder him as our-forerunner, who has taken our ture, as John Newton said, and gone Into Heaven to represent us before the Father, leaving us on earth with his nature to represent him before men. Phone your want ads to The Ore sronian. All its readers are inter ested in the classified columns, CHURCH SEEKS $21,000,000 Budget System Increases Effi ciency of Financing. Rev. R. Bland Mitchell, the, cor- AVAR TABLET IS UNVEILED Memorial at Trinity Episcopal Church to Heroic Members. At morning services yeesterday at Trinity Episcopal church a me morial tablet to the young men of the church who paid the supreme sacrifice in the world war was for mally unveiled. The-unveiling was done by General R. M. Blatchford from Vancouver barracks. The sermon of the morning was preached by the Rt. Rev. James H. Darlington, bishop of Harrisburg, here to attend the triennial general convention of the church. Bishop Darlington stressed the thought that the lasting satisfaction of life rests in religion, speaking from the phrase of II Corinthians, iii:4, "But our sufficiency is of God." ' The experiences of two medical college graduates and the impres sions of life forced upon them with the passing years were related as a background for the truths of the sermon. These young men left their college as agnostics. Each ten years they returned for a reunion. At the end of the first ten years the young men, having suffered hardships, were united in declaring that life is "rotten rotten to the core." Subsequently they agreed that life is not so bad as it is sad. In the end they decided that life is heroic, chivalrous and Christian. "After viewing and experiencing life from its varied angles they were won back by the force of Christianity to the feet of the Christ," said the speaker. "Peace is found by those who give up other things and find their satisfaction in Christ." , ' Four things are needed to make people happy in life, the bishop said. These are something to love and draw us out of ourselves, something to do, something to hope for and memories to dwell upon. The religion of Christ fills all these needs. "Let us turn' to Christ," he reasoned, "who said, "L if I be lifted up, will lift all men unto me.'" David's Episcopal church yesterday morning. Bishop Vincent was chosen as the convention preacher for St. David's because he had confirmed and or dained Rev. Thomas Jenkins, the pastor of the church, and because, he said, .he felt himself to be the religious godfather of the local minister. Bishop Vincent took his text from the 18th chapter of the Third Epis tle to the Corinthians. "The idea of family life comes down from heaven," he said, "and links all humanity iii the family and the fatherhood of God in heaven. . "The savage man, who saw a god in every force of nature made himself various gods, all as ugly and -as bloodthirsty as himself. The classical religions peopled heaven with hundreds of gods, deified hu mans. The Jews were the -first to see the idea of one God, but their God was a personal God, their leader in battle, a sort of powerful oriental sovereign who punished the disobedient with all manners of re lentless torment. "In Malachia, the : last of the Hebrew prophets, we saw the first idea of the universal God. Then, in Jesus Christ, the son made man, we received the full revelation of the true God. "In this God we have the religion of the family life. What a tragedy it is that even Christians themselves should overshadow this divine doctrine." PHEAGHER ALSO COWBOY REV. MR. LATHROP ORED BY KING. HON- HIGH-PI CHOIR RIPPED EPISCOPAL COMMISSION RE PORTS ON MUSIC. More Extensive Training Urged for Theological Students at Seminaries. HOME IS UPHELD AS IDEAL Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent Speaks at St. David's Episcopal Church. The true ideal of Christianity is the home. Without the family, re ligion is meaningless, contended the Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent, bishop of southern Ohio, in a sermon at St. Plans for giving the clergy more extensive training inmusic and a suggestion that highly paid choirs are not always essential were em braced in the report of the joint commission of church music "Which will be presented to the Episcopal general convention. The report made an earnest plea for the main tenance of standards of music com mensurate with those of the liturgy and the high office of music in the church. The report has been prepared by Dr. Wallace Goodrich of the New England Conservatory of Music and secretary of the commission. Other noted musical authorities, such Dr. Miles Farrow of New York and Dr. Peter C. Lutkin of Chicago, col laborated on the report, which is an exhaustive history of church music covering a period of more than 1500 years. It is Tecommended that the music conform to the spirit of religion and that its standards be defined through education in the history of church music, its relation to liturgy and an appreciation of quality, prac ticability and fitness. The report suggested that the fa cilities for such education be pro vided for the clergy through the systematic instruction all candi dates for holy orders in the theo logical schools and that organists receive authoritative specialized in struction in conservatory and college musical departments and through diocesan conferences. ' One of the specific recommenda tions of the commission was that congregational singing be developed, and there is a hint that elaborate and highly paid church choirs are not altogether essential in a further recommendation that the "sole test of the fitness of any choir or musi cal service shall be in its capacity to inspire and edify the people and to justify its work as an acceptable component part of divine worship." The restoration of the chanting" of the psalter by choir and congrega tion was recommended wherever practicable after due preparation, and emphasis was laid upon the de sirability that the music of the serv ice of holy communion shall be the most important of all the musical services of the church, although not necessarily the most elaborate. The report discussed the character of Organ music at all services, in cluding weddings and funerals, and the importance was emphasized of training the young to good taste in church music through proper atten tion to music in Sunday and church Executive Social Service Secre tary of Episcopal Church Has Eventful Career. A compliment from the late Theo dore Roosevelt and honors at the hands of Herbert Hoover are things cherished in memory by Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, who lived his boyhood days in Walla Walla, Wash., and is now executive secretary of the social service department of the Episcopal church. Though still a comparatively young man, Rev. Mr. Lathrop has had an eventful career. His ex periences range from bronco bust ing to acceptance of the decoration of the order of King Albert in Bel gium; from the forming of Junior Red Cross societies to the routing of official graft from the city ot San Francisco. It would be impossible to state just which of these experiences he enjoyed the most. For instance, just try tt judge from the following: "I can ride any bronco they can find me. I stopped once at Chey enne to see the Pioneer days per formances. Gee, it was great. How 'T. R.' would have enjoyed it." And a moment latere "While rec tor of the Church of the Advent in San Francisco I had a most in teresting experience. One day while walking along the street a friend greeted me and said Will Langdon (district attorney) had broken with Abe Ruef, the political boss, and that we ought to do something to back Langdon up. We organized the Good Government league, put in Taylor as mayor and Langdon as district attorney, and otherwise knocked out Ruef's graft machine "Almost before I knew it I stood in the position of a political boss, with a remarkable array of patron age in my power. We absolutely refused -to utilize this power. I resigned. After Heney was shot, however, we held meetings and framed an abatement bill which was put over and decommercialized prostitution in San Francisco." In 1915 Rev. Mr.- Lathrop was sent to Belgium to have charge of the relief work directed by Herbert Hoover. At Liege for several months he supervised distribution of sup plies. It was his responsibility to see to feeding of 2,000,000 persons. On his return to this country he was. sent to one of the most diffi cult posts in the United States among the Germans of Milwaukee, Wis. -He could do little with' the adult Germans and pro-Germans, but quickly saw how he could work through the children. He made it his business to organize Junior Red Cross societies. Entertainments were constantly given by these youngsters' societies and the older folk attended. Thus he reached the adults with the messages he had for them during the war period, when the adult Germans could by no device be inveigled into attend ing an ordinary patriotic meeting. . In 1920 he was appointed to his present job. It is a difficult mat ter to explain what the social serv ice department he directs is doing for the church. Lathrop said its object is "the awakening of the conscience of churchmen to t their responsibilities toward every de partment of life." "Do I ever get discouraged over the trend -of the times?" he re peated the question of the inter viewer. "No, not"- at all. Yo.u average everything up and compare PROGRESSIVE 1922 Capital and Surplus $ 2,452,000.00 Deposits $16,297,616.78 Number of depositors 34,000 THE-NORTHWE5TERN NATIONAL BANK PORTLAND OREGON lllllllllllllMlllIMM the present with the past of 50 or 100 years ago, and you don't find that the nation is worse off in mat ters of morality and religion. It's better." ' Oh, yes, about that compliment from Roosevelt. The late president knew of Rev. Mr. Lathrop's part In the San Francisco and California graft fights. When in San Fran cisco he attended service at Mr. Lath rop's church and hear him preach. When Roosevelt, many months later. was shot at and slightly wounded at Milwaukee, Bishop Sumner, then in Chicago, was among those who visited him. It was then Roosevelt mejitioned the fact that he remem bered well three or four sermonn he had heard during his life. One of these, he" told the present bishop of Oregon, was the sermon by lirv. 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